Illegal

Immigration Issues from U.S. and Arizona History

By ilara

  • Naturalization Act

    Naturalization Act established was the first rules to be followed by the United States which entailed a 2 year residency requirement if all criteria was met.

  • Alien and Sedition Act

    Alien and Sedition Acts required 14 years of residency before citizenship and provided for the deportation of "dangerous" aliens.

  • Contract Labor Law

    Contract Labor Law
    Contract Labor Law allowed recruiting of foreign labor.

  • The Page Act of 1875

    The first immigration law

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    First federal immigration law suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years and barred Chinese in U.S. from citizenship. Also barred convicts, lunatics, and others unable to care for themselves from entering.

  • Ellis Island

    Ellis Island
    Ellis Island opened to screen immigrants entering on east coast.

  • Angel Island

    Angel Island
    Although it was portrayed as the "Ellis Island of the West", within the Immigration Service it was known as "The Guardian of the Western Gate" and was designed control the flow of Chinese into the country, who were officially not welcome with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

  • Immigration Act

    The Immigration Act provided literacy tests for those over 16 and barred all immigrants from Asia.

  • Emergency Quota Act

    Emergency Quota Act
    Quota Act of 1921 limited immigrants to 3% of each nationality present in the US in 1910.

  • Immigration Act of 1924

    The 1924 Act was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans, especially Jews, Italians, and Slaves, who had begun to enter the country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s.

  • Chinese Exclusion Law Repealed

    Chinese Exclusion Law Repealed
    China's quota was set at a token 105 immigrants annually.

  • Hart-Celler Act

    Hart-Celler Act
    Hart-Celler Act abolished national origins quotas, and categorized of preference based on family ties, critical skills, artistic excellence, and refugee status.

  • Immigration Act of 1990

    Immigration Act of 1990
    George H. W. Bush signed the Immigration Act of 1990,

  • USA Patriot Acr

    USA Patriot Act amended the Immigration and Nationality Act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for admission or deportable due to terrorist activities.

  • SB 1070

    SB 1070